Burden

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Burden in SuperMemo is a number which estimates the average number of items that have to be reviewed daily (assuming review at scheduled time):

burden = 1/I1+1/I2+ ... + 1/In where:

  • In - current interval of the n-th item

This glossary entry is used to explain SuperMemo, a pioneer of spaced repetition software since 1987